Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1:…
What did the old woman say not to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: do, say, not do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1363 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1: a lost priest finds a lonely hut and a forbidden room» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Don't eat the rice, mate, yeah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 eat | advmod |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rice | det |
| 5 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rice | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 9 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 eat | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the rice and mate | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |
Option 2
Don't light a fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 light | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 light | advmod |
| 3 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not light | imperative · do-support | you not said here | a fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
Option 3
Don't leave, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 leave | advmod |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | imperative · do-support | you not said here | mate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Don't peep in the back room, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 peep | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 peep | advmod |
| 3 | peep | peep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | compound |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not peep | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the back room | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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